Jesse B. Hall

Critical Care Just the Facts - London: McGraw Hill Professional, c2007 - 560 pages

All the essentials of critical care in an instant!

This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.

FEATURES

Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine
Trusted insights from a writing team of top-name academics and clinicians from one of the country's preeminent critical care divisions
Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references
Highlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics
Logical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning...) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects

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